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Subject: Rippin' the favorite

tjames opened this issue on Nov 04, 2002 · 6 posts
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tjames ( ) posted Mon, 04 November 2002 at 3:17 PM · edited Thu, 14 November 2024 at 3:48 AM

This poem is one of my favorites written in 1941 by John Gillespie Maggee before his death a few months later. It has been read numerous times on TV and is a good model for discussing scoring in the challenges. High Flight "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed and joined the trembling mirth Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung. High in the sunlit silence, hov'ring there I've chased the shouting winds alond And flung my eager craft through footless halls of air. Up,up, up the long delirious burning blue; I've topped the wind-swept hills with easy grace, Where never lark, nor even eagle flew; And while, with silent lifting mind, I trod The high untresspassed sanctity of space; Put out my hand, and touched, the face, of God." John Gillespie Maggee 1941

tjames ( ) posted Mon, 04 November 2002 at 3:43 PM

My initial count is 32/14 or 2.28 and probably higher I'll send my initial scoring to anyone who wants to talk it over.

tresamie ( ) posted Mon, 04 November 2002 at 9:29 PM

I would like to see the scoring

Fractals will always amaze me!

PPsphere ( ) posted Thu, 14 November 2002 at 5:38 PM

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I've chased the shouting winds alond aloft???? I like the wild flight of fancy. Thanks for showing it.

tjames ( ) posted Thu, 14 November 2002 at 7:14 PM

Ok I missed a typo..it should be along.

PPsphere ( ) posted Fri, 15 November 2002 at 9:26 AM

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of course......drew a blank on that thanks again!!!

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